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AMSC's Mr. David Howey meets with Command Sgt. Maj. Shawn Carns, I Corps command sergeant major at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA, to discuss his motivation to join the Army, his career progression, and other topics to include building and cultivating relationships, delegation, the role of Army Civilians, and more. Learn more about I Corps at: https://www.army.mil/icorps For questions, suggestions, or feedback, write us at usarmy.leavenworth.tradoc.mbx.armyu-amsc-podcast@army.mil To learn more about the Army Management Staff College, visit our website at https://armyuniversity.edu/amsc No DoD or U.S. ARMY ENDORSEMENT IMPLIED. Any references to commercially available products or works are used for research and educational purposes only. Mention of any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the US Army, Department of Defense, or the United States Government. The views and opinions of the authors expressed herein do not state or reflect those of the United States Government and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. The mention of companies by name is solely for the purpose of representing educational framework and should not be implied as endorsement.

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In this extended episode, Anne chats with Landon Beach, the author of Narrator, and Scott Brick, the narrator of the novel, to find out what makes a great narrator-author relationship. If you're a writer, you know your characters, you understand their motivations and their goals. Creating a standout audiobook means trusting an actor to take the story to new heights. That's why we love audiobook narrators! They bring our characters to life with their voices, and they do it so well that we feel like we're coming along for the ride. Landon spent months learning everything he could about Sean Frost, the protagonist in "Narrator" He researched Sean's hobbies, his interests, his personality—even his favorite color! Many details of Sean that didn't make it into the novel became essential for developing his character in Scott's voice. We discuss how Landon's deep research into the character of Sean Frost led him to fully embody the role, and how Scott's experience as a voice actor informed his understanding of the subtleties that make this story great. We also talk about how you might be able to use your skills, interests, and background to add new textures & experience to your work as a voice actor. Transcript >> It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza. Anne: Hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS Podcast. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza. And today I am so excited to have two very special guests on the show. Welcome Landon Beach, author of the psychological thriller Narrator, which is available now wherever fine books are sold. Landon previously served as a naval officer and was an educator for 15 years before becoming a full-time writer with six titles, the latest being Narrator. Welcome Landon. Landon: Hey, Anne, thanks for having me on. Anne: We also have the actual narrator of the book Narrator and award-winning narrator who has more than 800 books to his name -- maybe there's more by now -- 600 Earphone Awards, a Voice Arts Legacy Award, a Grammy nomination. Welcome Scott Brick to the show. Scott: Hey, hey. It's so good to see you all. Anne: I know! You guys, thank you so much for joining me. I'm so excited to talk to you today about this book, which is amazing, BOSSes. So if you don't mind, I'd like to start with just a little bit of a preview, if you don't mind. I'm gonna play this and hopefully you guys will be able to hear it. Here we go. >> Why do authors have to kill off characters we love? I, Sean Frost, sit in my darkened recording booth and stare at the final paragraph of the novel I am narrating. Almost there. Finish it. Finish it right, finish it with a flourish. But I can't, not right now for I am crying. The main character, Nehemiah Stone, died two pages ago in a self-sacrifice that I had not seen coming. The book, The Paris Sanction, is author M. Scott Sal's fourth Nehemiah Stone thriller, which I have waited patiently for two years for the chance to narrate. Five years ago, Simon and Schuster thought I was the perfect narrator for the job when they contacted my agent, David Killian, whom I affectionately refer to as Killy. Anne: . I would love to play all of that, but I'm gonna leave the BOSSes in suspense . Wow. So you guys, for me, I mean, having read the book and listened to the audio book as well, it's amazing. And so I'd love to talk to you about the process. So let's start with you, Landon, after being an educator -- thank you very much for your service, thank you -- what was your thought process in becoming a writer? Landon: Well, I've always written ever since I was young, and I had a wonderful English teacher in high school who really encouraged me. And then it kind of went away for a while. As you said, I went off and served, but I don't think I ever lost the passion for reading or the itch. And so fast forward many years later, and Scott and I started working together and developed a friendship. And I had an idea that I had been tossing around in my mind for 20 years because I've always loved the entertainment industry. I love to watch movies and study film. And finally it came to me one day after Scott and I had finished I think three books together. I thought, I think I have a way to tell an entertainment comeback story that has never been done before with an audiobook narrator as the main character set within the framework of a psychological thriller. So that's where the idea came together. It wasn't until I started working with Scott and got to know a little bit about the audiobook world before I saw the opportunity that was in front of me. And then I shoved all other books to the side and just immersed myself in that world. And here we are today, . Anne: So I guess I should ask you then, how did you find Scott? So then Scott kind of contributed to the idea of the book for Narrator after you'd worked with him? Landon: He did not contribute to the idea at all. I shocked the heck out of him when I presented it to him. Anne: Oh, awesome! Landon: Yes. Now after that, yes, he was very helpful and had so much, you know, generous feedback. And the book, whatever success it may have, is in large part, of course, not only to his narration, but just his extreme kindness and professionalism, talking about the industry and seeing what worked and what wouldn't work in the book. And if we were gonna break some rules, to knowingly break them, so that it would be authentic and that the research would be impeccable. So that not only the common fan for 99% of them would not know where we're bending the rules or not. But it was important to us for maybe the 1%, the people that are in the industry that Scott and I both love, would appreciate the nods and winks and the Easter eggs. Anne: Oh, yeah. Landon: And just the fun of it that it hadn't been done before. So in terms of how I found Scott, I had placed in a few writing competitions for my first two novels, and I had written a third novel, and I was discussing with my wife how we might expand the business. And audiobooks were exploding back then and continue to explode now. But this is around 2019. And to make a long story short, I had been a fan of Scott's for years. Didn't know him at all. But I thought, well, if there's one person that I would love to narrate all of my books from now until eternity, it would be Scott. And I saw that he was an entrepreneur, and his ahead of the game, was already working with some indie authors at that point. And so I contacted his amazing production manager, Gina Smith, and reached out and asked if, you know, he'd be interested. And through a process that we went through, we ended up doing a three-book deal. And then it led to later books. So that's sort of how we got together on this. Anne: Well, I love the fact that you've continued to have Scott in your books. And so Scott, I imagine you had some collaboration after the surprise of finding out that he wrote a book about an audio book narrator. Talk about the process of collaboration with Landon. Scott: I will. I'll be happy to. But Landon, I just want you to know, thank you for the kind words, but you've only got 45, 50 minutes. I'll give you 50 more minutes to say good things about me. . It's very kind. Thank you. This was a marvelous surprise. Landon I got to know one another through letters, through emails, cards that we would exchange, and found out that we're both huge fans of Old Hollywood. I probably can't tell that I love old Hollywood, 'cause the books behind me. And at one point, I guess when he had this idea, he asked if he could maybe get some feedback. You know, essentially it was like an interview. He wanted to interview me about how audiobooks are made. And I remember him saying that he had this idea and very broad terms. Now, I wasn't really privy to what was going on in the story. I just told him about the process. And about six months later, he goes, oh, by the way, here you go. And I went, holy shit. Okay. Well, I guess he did. People say they're gonna do things all the time; it doesn't always happen. And then he asked me to read it ahead of time and just give him feedback. I mean, he was talking about like the rules that we break. You know, there's one thing about the audio book industry. It's very gender and ethnicity centric, right? If a black man writes a book, they're gonna hire a black man to narrate it. Same thing. People ask me why I work so much. I'm like, well, there's a lot of old white guys writing books. Right? And in the book at the very beginning is the Audie Awards. And Billy D. Williams has his memoir come out, and there's a woman who is nominated for best narrator of the year for having done that book. And I was like, hey, Landon, I'm sorry to tell you. But you know, they would hire a guy to do that. And , I just love the fact that the way that he addressed it was just talking about the elephant in the room. He said, you know, at one point Billy D. Williams says, you tell me that woman can't read my book? Are you kidding me? You know, and again, it just, address the issue and then move on. The collaboration, for lack of a better word, I was just primarily giving feedback like that as well. It's just that first interview. I remember days before the book was coming out, he emailed real quick and said, is it appropriate to say, I hit the record button? Is there an actual button that you hit in the studio? And I said, Well, no, not really. I mean, I'm not using hardware, I'm using software. So I have a shortcut. I hit the number 3 button on my keyboard. And he goes, But do you use that terminology? "I hit the record button." I said, No, I typically say I hit record. Okay, great. And that's what came about. And you know, they're small things, but Dan Musselman, who's one of my favorite people of all time, he gave me my career, basically. And he always said, you know, most books are a 100,000 words long. You could get 99,999 of them right. But if you pronounce one of them wrong, it will ruin the experience for the listener. And this is a similar thing, if you get the terminology wrong, it would take some of us right out of the experience. Anne: Absolutely. Well, absolutely. And I was just mentioning before when I was speaking in to Landon, how at home I felt with everything, everything was like, it was familiar to me. It was at home. Like, you grabbed a cup of tea for your throat, and you're at the award ceremony, and all of it just was so comfortable and just so wonderful and amazing. And I can't say enough good words about it, but I imagine that this was a little more collaborative than most audio books. Like Scott, talk a little bit about the process when you're hired to narrate an audio book, and how much interaction are you having with the author, or what does that look like? Scott: You know, it all depends on whether you're working directly with the author or through a publisher. Um, publishers really like to curate the relationship, for lack of a better word. They like to limit the amount that you really get to interact with the author. Then again, I have authors I've worked with for 20 years, and it's like, there's no way we're not gonna talk about it. You know, I'm like, okay, he's coming over to my house for a dinner. Am I not supposed to talk to him about his book? And if it's a Dune book, I've done all of those, I think 25 of them now. I call the author , and we go over all the pronunciations for the made up names, phrases, and whatnot. That's typically what will happen. I'll reach out to, you know, Nelson Demille. He puts in real people's names in the books that he writes. Because they've made charitable donations. Well, I wanna make sure that I'm, is it Carns or is it Kerns? They deserve to have their name said right. That's typically the way it works with an author. But when you work directly with an author like I've been blessed to do with Landon, he'll tell me, this thriller was inspired by this movie. He even sent me a copy of it on DVD. I'm blanking on it now. The Gene Hackman film. Why am I blanking? Landon: Night Moves. Scott: That's it. Exactly. So I watched that the night before, and it just helps get you into the mood. If anything else, the relationship that I've had, this working relationship with Landon, which is thankfully for me, become a true friendship, has informed my work on his books. It's nice to know when he sends me an email saying, you know, I got this character. I was inspired by this film, by this actress, by this actor -- it's really nice to know that kind of thing. Nobody listening will realize, oh yeah, that was Gene Hackman who inspired that character. Anne: Sure, sure. Scott: And yet, I know, and it makes it different for me and hopefully more layered and textured for the listener. Anne: So I guess my question would be is when you take on a character, right, you fully envelop that character. How do you prepare for that? And also, I'd like like to ask Landon, was it a surprise when Scott interpreted the character in the way that he did? Landon: So for this one, Anne, you read it ahead of time, Anne, which was wonderful of you to do that, because I wrote this in first person present tense. I felt that I had to know Sean Frost better than any character that I've ever written before. And I am not exaggerating here. I spent months working on Sean. I have 60 or so handwritten, two-sided loose leaf pieces of paper with notes about Sean Frost, his backstory, where he was raised, the toys that he played with when he was young. You know, millions of things that will never get into the book. And a lot of that was inspired by a book that had come out just recently, Character by Robert McKee. And it can be really intimidating to go through his books, but they're so worth it because the journey he takes you through in the -- he asks the hard questions. And so I told Scott this beforehand, I said, my biggest fear when the book was to come out was that someone would get to a place -- like you said, you know, if you get one word wrong, like he's talking about with Dan, is that someone would say, Sean Frost would never say that. Or Sean Frost would never do that. And that's scary and intimidating because you don't want something to take the reader or listener out of the experience. And so I felt comfortable after putting all that work in that I knew who he was, at least to start writing about him. And to add into the research before I say about, you know, Scott's interpretation of Sean, one thing that our relationship has developed far enough along where we're comfortable sending each other things and suggestions. And so this has a lot of pop cultural references, but it also has, I always have a soundtrack for all of my books, and it's, you know, songs that inspired me while I was writing. And if someone listened to all of those that say, how in the heck did you get Narrator out of all of those or the nonfiction books that I read? But there's something about it that I know as Scott, as a performer, as an actor, they're hungry for information. And let me see what I can do with this. And it's always on, you know, I always kinda say a volunteer basis -- he could use nothing that I give him, and we'd be completely fine. But because we're friends and we've had exchange of ideas, and in a lot of points in Narrator that made it better, it was the, let's let the best idea win here, no matter who came up with it. And so I was happy to, to go along with that. But I sent him an email for Narrator that was just massive, but it had every single pop cultural reference in Narrator. And there are points where, as you know, Sean acts them out in his mind and he's thinking about them. And so I thought, well, what if I sent those to Scott ahead of time? And so when he got to that part of the book, he could, he could look at that and work into the scene. And like, like he said, no one else would know that he watched Michael Douglas yelling to Sean Penn in The Game before he actually acted that out. But it keeps things fresh and, you know, energetic. And so that's what I would say about his performance is that, oh my gosh. I mean, just delighted. And I don't know a ton about the industry, but the respect that I gained in the year to year and a half of research before I approached him, I'm surprised I kept it a secret that long, but I was so intimidated before going because I wanted to make sure that I had done my job. But what I did realize is that there are interpretations and decisions -- he's making creative choices of taking that character on sometimes in every line or every word with what you're gonna stress and whatnot that I never noticed before. I always say that Scott and other wonderful performers, they make it seem easy where, oh, I'm just listening to this great audio book. I'm completely in there. But the decisions that you have to make to have that come alive. So yeah, absolutely. To see that hard work pay off, and to see the directions that Scott took it as an artist and creator in his own right, I couldn't be happier. . Anne: That's awesome. So Scott, tell us a little bit about the process, about how you got yourself into character. Scott: So funny, because in acting circles, you're either method or you're not, right? Maybe you're more of a technique actor. God, what's that grape line by Spencer Tracy? He's, you know, his approach to acting was memorize his lines. Don't bump into the furniture. I'm not a method actor, and yet I really like to prepare my mood. We have to prepare the text, make sure everything is pronounced correctly. I have a researcher who handles that for me, but I want to make sure that my head is in the right space. So, yeah. I will watch Night Moves, the Gene Hackman film. Before Narrator, I watched Misery because they're similarities, you know? Somebody who's being held against their will and forced to create basically. What I find really interesting is, I'm going through all the pop culture references that Landon sends me, is sometimes I find some that really work elsewhere. For instance, he was talking about this, and as you heard in the preview, this character, Nehemiah Stone. Well, that's a character who was very much, I think in the same vein as Jack Reacher. And I'm all also blessed to work on that series. I got 'em all right up there, just right behind me. And Landon emailed me and said, you know, while writing this part of the book, I was listening to the theme from The Incredible Hulk in the 1970s, The Lonely Man that marvelous piano music at the end. It's heartbreaking. That actually used to be my ring tone on my phone, but it was so silent that I couldn't hear my phone ring. So I had . But now a month or two after I did Narrator, I did the most recent Jack Reacher novel, which was called No Plan B. And I watched that video. I listened to that music every day before getting started. And nobody who's listening to either Narrator or a Jack Reacher novel is gonna go, wow. Sounds like he was listening to this, to the Incredible Hulk theme. But audiobooks is a type of storytelling where subtlety plays, and if it affects my performance just in a little way, then wonderful. Anne: Yeah. And I felt that absolutely while listening to it, so many subtle, tiny things. I felt close from the beginning, really to the character, which I thought was just phenomenal. So I imagine that because you guys had so much correspondence back and forth, Scott, this is different for you in other books, sometimes. You don't have as much collaboration with the author, right? And so then what other things do you have to do to prepare? As you mentioned, some of your publishers don't necessarily want you to collaborate so much. So what do you do to prepare for those characters and for those books? Scott: I have a real keen sense for genre. Look, I love certain genres that I work in simply because I'm a book fan. That's the reason I got into this industry. I'll give you an example. We just, I was working with Penguin Random House and the estate of Raymond Chandler, and his family wanted the whole Philip Marlow Omnibus rerecorded. And they wanted to add music. And so they were looking for a new voice for Philip Marlow. And they hired me. Now, sadly, Chandler passed away, and I want to say it was the late 50s, early 60s. There was no way I was gonna be able to have any interaction with him other than reading books that he wrote about writing. So what I did is, every single night -- there were eight books, seven novels, and one book of short stories. We recorded them over the course of a year, and every single night, the night before I would record, I would watch, maybe it was The Big Sleep, an actual Philip Marlow story. Maybe it was Double Indemnity. But I was watching film noir constantly, just to put myself in that mood, in that mindset, that hard boiled detective meeting the, you know, the femme fatale. Sometimes that's all you got. I've done that while doing the horror novels. I've watched Shining the night before, or The Ring. Yeah. I've done the same thing when I was recording Somewhere in Time. I watched time travel romances just to put myself in the right mood. Landon: Anne, if I could add something about the character and what Scott was able to bring to the table, I was asked in a recent interview, how did you pick Scott to do this? And, and I said that even if I would've had five different narrators before writing Narrator, I said, of course I would've gone after Scott because I knew it was first person present tense. But also it's so much in the mind of Sean Frost. And when I listened to Scott's work where he does first person -- one, if you identify with that character, at some point you're listening and you think, I'm that character. I'm going through this. Which is a wonder of fiction. But also two, you become immediately immersed in the narrative and the novel. Anne: Oh yeah. Landon: And Scott is great at that. It's kind of what they said about Tom Hanks when they picked him for Robert Langdon, is that they thought that without speaking, he is a fantastic actor of someone who's thinking, and less is more. And I like to think of Scott in those terms of when someone is speaking inside of their head and that internal monologue was a natural choice. And the caveat that we joke about is that, you know, Scott is not Sean Frost , but I thought he was perfectly suited to play that role. Like, and some people have asked me, they're like, they're like, Scott is Sean. I'm like, no, he's not. Anne: I was gonna say, can you identify -- Landon: But he was perfect for it because he's a conglomeration of all the narrators that I researched. All their methods and stuff are kind of melded into this one character. So yes, there is some of Scott that is in there, definitely. But some of the routines that Sean have are completely different than what Scott does. . Anne: Well, that's kind of good in a way. . Scott: All of my colleagues, all the narrators who've gotten back to me and said, I love this book. They don't ask about like abuse issues. They don't -- but anything like that, what they wanna know is, do you really make as much money as Sean Frost does? And I of course say, yes, I do, even though I don't . Anne: Landon, I wanted to say like the first person writing a novel in the first person I thought was really for this novel, I just thought it was really wonderful. Again, like you said, you picked Scott because you thought for him to do it in the character in first person was just, I think a phenomenal choice. Landon: Oh, thank you, Anne. That means a lot. Anne: But is that a choice as an author? Like, okay, when you sit down, you've got an idea to start writing. Like what makes you decide whether it's first person or how you're going to present that? Landon: Well, for this particular case, this is the first time that I've ever written first person. Scott knows from my other books, they've been the third person closed, third person omniscient. But coming up in getting ready to write this book, it really, a lot of it had to do with the fact that I'm trying to dramatize and make a psychological thriller about someone who stays in a really confined space, in a booth. And I empathize with that in terms of an author. I mean, I'm in my office right now, Anne, for 12 hours a day. It's really, really boring and lonely and hard work. And that's why I look forward to these calls, one, to see my buddy here because, you know, we need this as, as creators to touch base with each other every once in a while. And I always leave energized and enthused. But I thought it's gotta be a psychological thriller that's the route to go with making this so that there, I can bring in suspense and reliable narration, unreliable narration. And it opens up a different menu of things to play with the audience's mind and wonder what's real and get as many reversals, authentic reversals, not just cursory ones as we can throughout the entire book to keep people on, on the edge of their seats. So I thought for this one, I had to go all in on this one character. And I say this a bit tongue in cheek, but not, I miss him. I, I, I'm miss writing Sean. I really do. For that one intense period, and I think Scott would agree that when we got to the actual recording, I mean, it was like we were living in the same house next door to each other, and then it breaks away, and you go months without talking to someone. But that was so intense and we had to collaborate and work on a few issues that it was, I don't know, it's, it's like nothing I've never experienced before. Scott: Also, just from my perspective, what it allowed me to do was -- I don't wanna use the word improvisation, because this is a book. It's written, it is scripted. And yet there are those moments where you can improvise in terms of your performance. Not change the words, but like, he asked me about my own particular method of recording it. And for many years I've used a tally clicker. And I can demonstrate to you, you know, it's one of those things that click when you're going in and out of a venue, you see the guy who's counting heads. You know, how many people do we have inside now? Okay. It's technically called it tally clicker. But when I just use the words tally clicker, people always say to me, what? And I'm like, well, so I have to explain. Anne: Got one right here. Scott: Anything that makes the noise. Landon: There it is. There it is. Scott: Anything that will spike the wave form the waveform. Okay, well it's one thing to hear about it and then it's another thing to actually hear it. So I reached out to Landon, and I was like, how about -- 'cause this happens at the very beginning as I'm talking about the tally clicker -- how about I leave one of them in? And I had to call my, my edit my post house to say, I want all of them taken out except that one because it's the one that illustrates. As I'm talking about the tally clicker, I just went up to the microphone and just hit it four or five times. Oh, okay. Great. It'll help the listener. There was four or five things like that that, and I would always email Landon and say, is it okay if I put this in? At one point, I'm literally dabbing my lip balm on. He talks, you know, Sean, he's swishing his mouth with water. I left it in , you -- why not? Anne: I was at home, I'm telling you. Landon: It was so perfect. It was like special effects for a few parts. But it was those kinda layers that I think made this special in my opinion. Especially the time that he goes through Sean's routine, 'cause he goes through it a few times. But Scott picked the perfect moment because it's right at the climax, and here he is, you know, triumphant from let's just say some obstacles that he's had to climb over. And he's like, I dab this and you can hear it. And then I take a swig of water, and you can hear it. And I'm like, that is so perfect. I never even would've thought of that. Anne: I am in the booth. I am in the booth. Landon: I was there. Right there. Scott: The shape of your lips, it changes the sound coming out of it. And I was like, darn right. You know, and people were asking, my buddies were asking me, were you just like dabbing it with your finger? Hell no, I'm using -- Anne: Oh my gosh. Landon: Michelle Cobb was texting Scott back and forth and who is emailing me. And she was talking about it on the podcast, and she's just, you know, having a blast with the whole concept of Sean Frost. She's like, Scott, he's in a tuxedo. But I said, you know, the character that he was narrating in this book listened to me was -- and so I said, well, let's let Sean as a professional get into a little bit of method and do that. And so, yeah, I'm glad that some people like those moments and found them -- Anne: Loved them. Landon: -- entertaining and humorous. Anne: Oh my gosh. Yeah. Landon: It was fun. Anne: Absolutely. So is there a movie in the future? I don't know, I just Landon: I tell you what, I, I would absolutely love to see this made, and I was a screen writer before I was a novelist, and that's where my degree is in, my master's is in screenwriting. And so a lot of this, when I got to the end of it, I said, gosh, I can just, I can see it. So fingers crossed. Hey, anybody listening to this podcast, please reach out to Scott and myself . Anne: Yeah. Fantastic. So I asked that, but what's in the future for you next, Landon? Another book? What's happening? Landon: Yep. So I'm in the final editing stages of a murder mystery, and that's going to come out a month from now, right around Christmas. And I just found this out the other day that the first book in the series, Huron Breeze for thebestthrillerbooks.com won mystery of the year for 2022. Anne: Congrats. Landon: So I'm just excited, humbled, surprised, but it's gonna be neat to release a sequel when all of that gets shared. And so what Scott and I have talked about is that at some point, we'll do our pre-recording conference for Huron Nights, because we're gonna take the main character into a complicated place, because it's part of a trilogy. So usually this is kind of the Empire Strikes Back episode of a trilogy where everything goes to hell, and then they've gotta come back in the third one. So I look forward to that, and I have some, some interesting ideas of some things that might inspire him as he gets ready for his performance. And then I'm collaborating too with Susanne Elise Freeman on a novella, which is gonna take place in between books two and three, and it's going to be an assassination, spy, espionage short. And so we've already talked over Zoom, and I'm thrilled to be working with her. She's gonna of course play the main character in this one. And then we'll wrap up this trilogy with Huron Sunrise. And then finally I'm gonna get to the end of the Great Lake Saga, which is book five in that saga. I have a book on every Great Lake, and so I have four of them, but the last one has taken a backseat just because once Narrator got into my mind, I mean, the seas parted and it was all I had to get that out. And then of course the mystery, that's kind of taken on its own life. It was only planned as a standalone, but so many fans liked it and wanted more, I was like, well, I, I'll have to think about it. I did not plan to write anymore about that. Anne: Yeah. Well count me as one of those. Landon: Busy year coming up. Anne: Yeah. Well, it sounds like so much fun, all your projects coming up. Scott: You know what I, what I love about it is that when we were doing the first book in that series Huron Breeze, and there's this moment where there's a book within a book, right? There's a, a woman writer at the center of it, and she has written this wildly successful book, and they talk about how the audio book was narrated by Susanne Elise Freeman, my girlfriend. And I, and there was like a line or two in it that she actually says, and I said to Landon, you want me to have her come down to the booth and just have her say that? And so we had her do the, the opening credits too, so you -- her voice wouldn't come as a surprise. And then Landon gets this idea that like, oh, maybe I'll write the book within the book. And so he's having Suzanne narrate it; I just love it. It's become a cliche to, to talk about thinking outside the box, but that's where growth comes from. That's where industry norms become, you know, stretched and we expand and grow. And I just love the fact that he is open to, great, let's do something a little different. Anne: Well, I have to tell you, I'm not an audiobook narrator. I've, I've narrated one a long time ago, but I'll tell you what, you guys just make it sound so wonderful and delightful that, BOSSes out there, I'll tell ya, you guys are inspirational. And I really, really appreciate you talking to us today. And I had all these questions, but the whole conversation, I just love the direction it took and I appreciate. Scott: No, I was, and I was gonna have to cut you off from saying nice things. Anyway, that another 15 minutes. That's it. Anne: Well Scott, tell us, outside of working with Landon, is there anything else going on in your future that you'd like to let the BOSSes know about? Any other exciting projects? Scott: Yeah, I've got some wonderful books I've been working on recently. Just finished a historical thriller. It's non-fiction, but it was about the plot to kill Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at the conference in Tehran, the first of the two times that the three of them met during World War II. The Nazi, it's called The Nazi Conspiracy. And that was really just a brilliant book. I'm also working on a couple of podcasting projects, scripted podcasts about the history of LA, the history of the entertainment industry. You can tell from books behind me, I love the silent film era, and I have an idea that I would love to just share with anybody who's like-minded and fascinated. Anne: Yeah. I'm already intrigued by that. I think that sounds like a fabulous idea. Scott: Awesome. Anne: Absolutely. So tell the BOSSes how they can get Narrator and any other book. Landon, where is it available, at Amazon, on your website? Where can they go to find out more? Landon: So there's links to all of my books on my website, LandonBeachBooks.com. But the Kindle version is exclusively on Amazon, but the paperback, you can get at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Target, anywhere pretty much. And the audio books are wide, so anywhere that audiobooks are sold, you can get a copy of Narrator in 30 seconds. Anne: Fantastic. Yes. So any last, I'm gonna say tips for the BOSSes out there for them to be BOSSes and be successful in their voiceover endeavors or their writing endeavors? Scott: I would say, from my perspective, don't be afraid to reach out to the author because you never know what can happen because of it. Be willing to do something that you might not ordinarily do in the booth. Years ago, there was a book I was doing where one character had an entire package of chewing gum we wanted in his cheek, and it actually spoke about how it changed the sound of his voice. And I knew it wouldn't sound right if I was just doing this. So I reached out and I said, would it be okay if I record all those lines separate and they get edited in later? I checked with the editor, with the publisher and I recorded the whole freaking thing with a, a wad of chewing gum in my mouth. And never in my life before or since have I brought chewing gum into a booth . But that was the time it seemed appropriate. So dare to think differently. Anne: Yeah. That makes the difference. Landon? Landon: Yeah, so I would say an idea that you might want to consider, I know that a lot of audiobook narrators, they will put some of their background and their history of what they did before they became an audiobook narrator. But I would encourage them to list as many things as they were involved in before because you never know if an author is writing about a specific subject -- we can use Narrator as an example. But of course I was looking for someone who had not only audiobook narrating experience, but performing arts experience, which was another reason it worked out perfectly to go with Scott on this. But maybe there is an opportunity of, I don't know, if you were a trucker or something else before you became a narrator, that you might be able to lend a unique experience and voice to that project in a realm that you're already really well versed in with audio books. So I would say, you know, not to run away from your previous background. It might lead to an interesting book that you're a part of. And the other part is just that, yes, there are some authors, and I can say this, they don't really wanna have a relationship. You know, they're like, I did this, you know. The narrator doesn't exist without me because I wrote the book. And you know, obviously those are not gonna be the kind of relationships that would work out like Scott. But with us, there might be an opportunity to really have a unique kind of collaborative environment, not like a total collaboration, which we've said, which is, you know, I have my turf and he has his. But yeah, there could be something that you did not know or expect. I never saw this coming until we became friends, and I, I really can't see Narrator without it now, if that makes sense. So. Yeah. Anne: Absolutely does. Well, gentlemen, it has been such a joy talking to both of you. Thank you so, so much for your words of wisdom and inspiration. And BOSSes, go get Narrator. I'm telling you, go out and get it now. In less than 10 seconds you can click and have this experience for yourselves. Gentlemen, thank you so much. I'm gonna give a great big shout-out to our sponsor, ipDTL. You too can connect and work like BOSSes. Find out more at ipDTL.com. You guys, have an amazing week and I'll see you next week. Bye. >> Join us next week for another edition of VO BOSS with your host Anne Ganguzza. And take your business to the next level. Sign up for our mailing list at voBOSS.com and receive exclusive content, industry revolutionizing tips and strategies, and new ways to rock your business like a BOSS. Redistribution with permission. Coast to coast connectivity via ipDTL.

It takes a village when someone is battling a disease like Pulmonary Fibrosis. The patient, the Medical Teams -- and of course -- the caretakers! Karen Carns joins Crockett to discuss the role of the caretaker, reflecting on the path she has taken with her husband Jim. It's the ‘PULMONARY FIBROSIS' PODCAST!! Brought to you by the Wescoe Foundation for Pulmonary Fibrosis and the Pennsylvania IPF Support Network! Learn more at PAIPFSUPPORTNETWORK.org!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are you or someone you know living with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis?! We have got a GREAT episode this time around with excellent information on the patient and caregiver experience from a patient living with IPF. Jim Carns joins Crockett to tell us about the patient experience of living with IPF, and about lung transplants. It's the 'PULMONARY FIBROSIS' podcast! Brought to you by the Wescoe Foundation for Pulmonary Fibrosis, and the PAIPF Support Network! Learn more at PAIPFSUPPORTNETWORK.org!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After several years of talking about going on their yoga and surfing retreat, Diana and Valerie finally did it! It was the trip of a lifetime. What they did not realize was the magic that sparked this hidden gem on the western coast of Panama. The location, the resort, the amazing food and wonderful activities paled in comparison to the amazing people that run this magical place. While on their trip, the ladies had the wonderful honor of interviewing Janel Phillips, the co-owner of Sansara Surf & Yoga Resort in beautiful Cambutal. If you've ever believed in following your dreams, tune into this episode!

Diana and Valerie discuss how their younger selves had a tendency to take on EVERYTHING, all the time, in the attempt to “control the universe.” A behavior that is, ultimately, self serving, self destructive, and often at the expense of others. We dissect and reflect on accolades, ego and our motives for “overdoing.” Are you trying to be a superhero? Because Edna says: “NO CAPES!”

In this episode, we welcome a very special guest! Julie Eubanks has been the owner of Be Yoga in Marietta, GA for over 15 years. She has a very tough story of love and loss with a best friend who ultimately inspired her to open her studio. It is a story that transcends time, location and loss. She is a warrior who has used her heartbreak to motivate and inspire others. We are excited and honored to have Julie join us on our podcast.

This Episode we interview Dell Shepard, Melony Carns, Terry Hopkins about their take on being a Gym Owner. Welcome to the Gym Lords Podcast, where we talk with successful gym owners to hear what they're doing that is working RIGHT NOW, and to hear lessons and failures they've learned along the way. We would love to share your story! If you'd like to be featured on the podcast, fill out the form on the link below. https://gymlaunchsecrets.com/podcast

This Episode we interview Dell Shepard, Melony Carns, Terry Hopkins about their take on being a Gym Owner. Welcome to the Gym Lords Podcast, where we talk with successful gym owners to hear what they're doing that is working RIGHT NOW, and to hear lessons and failures they've learned along the way. We would love to share your story! If you'd like to be featured on the podcast, fill out the form on the link below. https://gymlaunchsecrets.com/podcast

This week, Diana and Valerie will say “Sorry, not sorry!” for discussing the tendency to over-apologize. Do you find yourself saying sorry for the most trivial things or for the actions of others that are beyond your control? Does this habit dilute the importance of a true and necessary apology? And why do some people seem to constantly apologize while others never do? In “The Never Ending Sorry” episode, these are just a few of the questions that we seek to answer. Whew! It's a lot to unpack.

It's Fancy Jam Time! Life is too short to settle for “less than” and for feelings that we are not deserving of things that we desire. This week, Diana and Valerie discuss why you should buy the dang purse, sleep in, or take that trip you've been dreaming about! It's time to level up and go for the things that matter to you in your life. It's not being shallow or materialistic, it's about advocating for something that makes you happy.

The stories you tell are important, especially when it comes to sharing your own. Do you have mem-ories, accomplishments, aspirations, values -- a legacy -- that you want to leave behind? If you ha-ven't thought much about it before now, 2022 is a great time to start! This week, Diana and Valerie talk about the value of knowing yourself, understanding the percep-tions others have of you and how future generations can benefit from your own personal storytelling right now.

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This week Diana and Valerie are talking about the big differences between motivating, experiencing, and controlling situations. Whether it's planning family vacations, work events or social gatherings, exhaustion and resentment can often be the outcome when you're always trying to be the one at the wheel. Even though it's called a “trip,” the fun you have isn't supposed to come with a lot of baggage, right? Join us as we unpack this topic about letting go and enjoying the ride.

This week, Diana and Valerie have a discussion about how we show up in conversations. Are you listening to correct or listening to connect? If we're only looking for opportunities to be right, or waiting for the pauses to make a point, is real engagement and communication actually happening? They also discuss the importance of asking questions, why we should think more about “dialing direct” rather than enlisting supporters on social media, and how being an active listener can help you grow personally, professionally and emotionally.

Time to leave the kids and work behind and hit the road. Honky Tonks, Rooftop Bars, Fabulous Cocktails and lots of Live Music. Come along as Diana and Valerie hit NashVegas for some big, old-fashioned girls' weekend fun!

What's actually happening in real life isn't usually what you see in the perfect, polished pictures posted on social media. In this week's episode of NMNCND,“You Don't Know What You Don't Know,” Diana and Valerie discuss how these facades don't serve us because we aren't sharing our most authentic selves and are not seeing the challenges that others might be facing behind closed doors. Join the gals for a few laughs and a very organic conversation about empathy, authenticity, COVID, and lessons learned.

Who are you listening to and why? Diana and Valerie talk about the people who are influencing their decision making in all areas of their lives. Whether in parenting, work, finances or personal lives, these people are guiding and influencing our decisions every day. Mentors are the “Kitchen Cabinet” (or the “Medicine Cabinet!”) in your life!

Some of the most practical products in any industry are built by the customers themselves, simply because they understand the issues by experiencing it first hand. In this episode, Brad Gotto and Matt Stahl speak with Chadd Mason, chief executive officer and founder at The Cabana Group. Chadd shares his unique background to how he got into the financial services industry. He also discusses how the Cabana Group is changing the financial industry with the rules-based nature of what they do for clients. Chadd discusses:  Why he got into a career in investing––and what he is trying to accomplish The purpose of the software called CARA (cyclical asset reallocation algorithm) What Cabana Group does differently to provide a unique experience for their clients And more Connect With Chadd Mason: LinkedIn: Chadd Mason The Cabana Group Connect With Fiat Wealth Management: hello@fiatwm.com (952) 426-9116 Fiat Wealth Management LinkedIn: Brad Gotto LinkedIn: Matthew Stahl LinkedIn: Fiat Wealth Management Facebook: Fiat Wealth Management Twitter: Fiat Wealth Management About Our Guest: Chadd Mason is the CEO and founder of The Cabana Group. A rare dual-practitioner working to solve clients' legal and financial issues, Mason believes “no client issue is isolated.” He combines specialized knowledge in two professions to better serve individual investors, pension boards, businesses RIAs and financial advisors across the country. He has earned distinctive credentials, including the Chartered Wealth Manager® designation and a Masters of Law degree. Mason provides wealth management and comprehensive financial advice through his SEC registered investment advisory firm, Cabana Asset Management. He provides retirement planning and insurance products as the principal of Cabana Financial and Cabana Institutional, and as an attorney he provides legal counsel to clients in areas of wealth management, estate planning and investment advisor/broker dealer regulation through Cabana Law Group (Prevost, Shaff, Mason and Carns, PLLC in the state of Texas). His holistic business model allows him to address both his clients' legal and financial needs, with the commitment to helping them protect, manage and grow their wealth.

Happy holidays, Buttercups! How is everyone doing? Diana and Valerie are back with a special holiday episode. They discuss the joys and challenges of the season including gift giving, managing stress and 2022 intentions. Please join us! We can't wait to start a new year with you! Enjoy!

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Laura Todd Carns (@LauraToddCarns) comes by the show to talk about her Atavist feature "Searching for Mr. X." We also hear from the lead editor of the piece Seyward Darby. Visit magazine.atavist.com to read the piece and subscribe to The Atavist. Keep the conversation going @creativenonfictionpodcast on IG and @CNFPod on Twitter. Show notes and to sign up for the Up to 11 Newsletter, visit brendanomeara.com.

In this week's podcast episode, we kick those bucket lists to the curb and start composing our LIVE Lists! What do you want to prioritize in your life to make it more meaningful to you? What are your goals? Maybe it's all about having a life with more travel and adventure. Maybe it's about experiencing spontaneity or more laughter every day. It might be something as straightforward as learning to golf! Diana and Valerie discuss what's on their individual (and shared!) Live Lists and how they plan on making them happen. Starting NOW! Let's make those dreams come true, shall we?!

Are you waking up on the right or wrong side of the bed? Are you jumping out of bed to seize the day or are you dragging after a full night's “sleep” more tired than ever? Listen in as Diana and Valerie talk about the healing power of “good sleep” vs. ”just sleep.” There is a difference. Quality matters and we are advocating for rock-solid rest!

This week we do a deep dive into the topic of loneliness. Not to be downers, but it is very real and prevalent in many of our lives. Diana and Valerie are shining some light on this “swept under the rug” topic. No one, especially a positive person, likes to admit that they are lonely. There are judgements and sometimes others, including ourselves, help start the shame spiral. We are perceived as being weak. Listen in as we own these feelings and talk about the power of normalizing this emotion.

Diana and Valerie are talking about the often-conflicting narratives and options that battle it out on the daily between our heads and our hearts. What do you do when you know what you “should” do but your heart wants you to do something different? Through the conversation, there is discovery about how these internal struggles illustrate the daily challenges that we face in creating appropriate boundaries for others, managing important relationships, making tough decisions and in advocating for ourselves. In other words: exactly what the No. Mums. No Carns. No Daisies. podcast is all about!

With all of its benefits, this digital age has also brought along its fair share of challenges. “Ghosting” is a relatively new term that refers to abruptly cutting off contact with someone without giving that person any warning or explanation for doing so. Even when the person being ghosted reaches out to re-initiate contact or gain closure, they're met with silence. To anyone that has experienced this, it can create feelings of confusion, shame, embarrassment and sadness. In this episode, Diana and Valerie discuss their experiences, how it has impacted them and what they've learned.

Diana and Valerie kick off Season 5 with an interview with their guest, Dan Quiggle! Dan is an international speaker, serial entrepreneur, author, podcaster and creator of the Quiggle Assessment, an online leadership and personality assessment unlike any other out there. You will be enthralled and engaged as we navigate the best way to create your own personal brand.

David Carns is the Chief Revenue Officer at Casepoint LLC, an eDiscovery platform for the artificial intelligence space. He is an attorney and technologist who has always been fascinated by the intersection between law and technology. Tom Fox welcomes him to this week's show as they talk about his current role at Casepoint, the evolution of eDiscovery, and what it means for compliance and compliance professionals. How Casepoint Has Evolved Casepoint was initially focused on law firms but, as David explains to Tom, their expertise and knowledge on legal techniques are now spread out to all sectors and segments in the legal industry. The platform of Casepoint has also evolved from consultancy to predominantly software. Its legal discovery platform has moved beyond eDiscovery towards more of a development environment that supports legal workflows. “What Casepoint has become, is for many people a repository of either discovery ready data or data around internal investigations ...it has expanded quite a bit beyond just eDiscovery and its document management for a variety of use cases that we find today,” David tells Tom. Subject Access Requests The main challenge with respect to data discovery in Europe is subject access requests. “Companies or individuals don't necessarily want to avail themselves or their data to US jurisdiction,” David remarks. There is a strong interest in having data centers based in Europe, he adds, along with a desire from European-based companies to use those data centers. There is, however, a concern from people within the EU about the privacy implications surrounding such a move.  The Shift to Cloud-Based Technology The pandemic transitioned the global working environment to a remote one. With this, came the boost in the adoption of cloud-based technology. David explains to Tom that cloud-based tech has its advantages over on-premise tech in three major ways: convenience, efficiency, and its ability to quickly implement machine learning. It's much easier for Casepoint to adopt cloud-based applications, and cloud-based tech passively applies machine learning from documents and provides feedback to the appropriate users. For all these reasons, it's no wonder cloud-based tech was adopted and embraced so quickly during the work-from-home period, and it's also why it won't be going away even after we return to the regular work environment, David points out. He predicts that the technology will most likely be used in a hybrid way in the future.  Looking To The Future Tom asks David what compliance professionals, lawyers, and firms need to be thinking about when it comes to eDiscovery, and data management in the future. David advises that companies and corporations should pay very close attention and keep a handle on all the locations of their data. “If there are only references to URLs or data identifiers, are we making sure that that data is being collected and preserved in a way that can be used for future investigations, litigated matters, jurisdictional issues, those sorts of things?” he argues. Resources Davis Carns | LinkedIn | Twitter  Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

To all of the amazing fathers and father figures out there: HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! Diana and Valerie share a bonus podcast episode to talk about the love, legacies and challenges of their relationships with their dads, who have both passed away. You are SO very missed but the memories we have are held dear and shared daily.

Even if we are generally armed with a positive outlook and a sunny disposition, life has a funny way of presenting us with frustrating and disappointing situations. At these times, emotions can often rule the day (and you!) but then ultimately leave us with an undesirable outcome. How do you handle it when you are thrown a curveball in your personal life or at work? Valerie and Diana talk about how their passions have helped and hindered them on this life journey. Listen in as they share a handy new coping mechanism for taking the emotion out of negative situations.

In this week’s episode we talk about looking back. Sometimes that can be pretty hard to do but we’ve(hopefully)learned to use a lens that allows us to appreciate the lessons learned instead of feeling regret. Diana and Valerie discuss pivotal moments that have significantly changed the direction, and momentum, of their lives, as well as things they might do differently today.

Our very first guest, Dr. Debbie Phillips, joins us today! She is a mentor, advocate, entrepreneur, nationally acclaimed speaker, business owner, multi-family industry icon, teacher, wife and mother. She coined the phrase “Genius Zone” and was the inspiration for one of the NMNCND podcast episodes in Season 1! Listen in as this amazing powerhouse shares her tips and tricks on how to have it all without losing yourself.

A special edition episode to honor the beautiful women who we are so fortunate to call our mothers! The *original* influencers! We have learned, grown and become the women that we are today thanks to these steel magnolias! So, on this Mother’s Day: here's to all the moms, step moms, friend moms and wonderful ladies that are mom gurus and guides in our lives! Take a listen as Valerie and Diana pay tribute. Happy Mother's Day!

Walking buddies, travel mates, co-workers, workout partners, wine night gal pals, BFFs…Not everyone in your life is your ride-or-die but there are so many different types of relationships throughout your lifetime that are incredibly important, fulfilling and impactful. Join Diana and Valerie in this week’s podcast episode that is all about friendship!

There is not a handbook given to you at the hospital when you give birth to your children. Parenting is a long road full of hard lessons and growth and the stakes could not be higher. Listen in as Valerie and Diana have a frank and vulnerable conversation on their parenting pitfalls and how they continue to navigate and learn with time!

Consistently consistent. Redundant? YES! And that’s how the magic happens! In their first episode for season 4, Diana and Valerie talk about how daily micro changes and patterns can have a big impact on long-term behavior. Slow and steady CAN win the race. Join us for a discussion about strategies for “stick-to-it-ness” and personal success!

We go in-depth with Steve Sinclair, who is retiring as secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections. Plus, Joanna Carns, the director of the state's recently created Office of Corrections Ombuds.

Wildman & Steve discuss conversion, the Gospel and the importance of making ministry relevant. All of this happens while playing GREAT music from Gypsy Carns- this guy ROCKS! Of course there is the usual attempt at sarcasm as only THEY can do.... ENJOY!Featured Band: gypsycarns.comTweet of the Week: @bryanduncanBumper Music: Messenger- messengermetal.com

Everything you experience in your life is largely about your mindset: what you spend most of your time and energy thinking about is ultimately the direction you are headed. Is it a happy journey to all of the places you want to be? From journaling to future boards to spreadsheets, Diana and Valerie discuss different ways to find clarity, focus on what you really want out of life, make important changes and how to make your goals a reality.

Do you feel seen and heard in all of the different “departments” of your life: in your work, in your relationships, in your community? Are you a supportive advocate for others who want to have a voice? Diana and Valerie discuss the idea of “showing up” in all of the different areas of your life and the importance of feeling valued.

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From Enneagram tests to zodiac signs to dating apps to leadership assessments, there’s an entire multibillion dollar industry focused exclusively on taking inventory of our personalities and unique characteristics and guiding us on how to optimize and use them. Right down to getting along with others in a more productive and meaningful way, be it in business, friendship or romantic relationships. Diana and Valerie discuss what their results have been and weigh in on how they’ve used them over the years in various ways.

So many of us deal with a simmering level of anxiety on the daily. Some days, it’s uneasiness. Some days, it’s downright shakiness. Some days, the simplest of tasks seem daunting. Out of nowhere, the beast from within surfaces and takes your breath away. If you have ever experienced this, listen in as Diana and Valerie have a raw and open conversation about their challenges with anxiety.

Happy 53rd birthday, Diana! In this episode, Diana and Valerie discuss what birthdays mean to each of them, how they celebrate, their thoughts on aging and why they embrace opportunities for fresh starts and new beginnings.

Valerie and Diana open Season 3 with a candid discussion about a topic that impacts each and every one of us: money and finances. Both women discuss their emotional relationships with money, how they have evolved over the years and the steps they’ve taken to go from just surviving to thriving!

In this episode, we discuss intersectionality which is an important social work concept. You can learn more about me by visiting my Psychology Today profile or on Facebook and Instagram @melaniematthewscounselling. Sources used for this episode: Dumbrill, G. C. & Yee, J. Y. (2019). Anti-oppressive social work: Ways of knowing, talking, and doing. Oxford University Press. Mojab, S. & Carpenter, S. (2019). Marxism, feminism, and “intersectionality”. Labor and Society, 22, 275-282. https://doi:10.1111/lands.12409 National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). (2018, June 22). Kimberle Crenshaw: What is intersectionality? [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDtnfQ9FHc Wallin-Ruschman, J., Price, A., Richey, C., & Carns, K. (2020). Reflections and results from the intersections: Teaching and learning the praxis of intersectionality in the psychology classroom. Journal for Social Action in Counselling & Psychology, 12(1), 13-26. https://doi:10.33043/jsacp.12.1.13-26 World Health Organization [WHO] & Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. (2014). Social determinants of mental health. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/112828/9789241506809_eng.pdf;jsessionid=87303D51154E236B030E3737E503C7A4?sequence=1 Arnold, R., Burke, B., James, C., Martin, D., & Thomas, B. The Power Flower [photo]. Toronto. http://lgbtq2stoolkit.learningcommunity.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Power-Flower.pdf Thank you to TakingITGlobal, the Government of Canada, and Canada Service Corps for generously supporting this podcast series! Do you have a simple project idea to support your community? TakingITGlobal is looking to support youth who are inspired with ideas and ready to take action through their youth-led community service grants. Apply for a #RisingYouth grant today at www.risingyouth.ca! You can also find TakingITGlobal on Twitter @TakingITGlobal, Facebook @TakingITGlobal and @jeunesenactiontig, and Instagram @RisingYouthTIG and @TakingITGlobal

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah. How are you doing? Is the tinsel hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon will be there? Is the house fully decorated? Lights hung perfectly outside? Gifts bought and wrapped? Have you baked your cookies? Are you joyful and blissful or are you hanging on by a piece of tinsel? Are your lights burning brightly or are they burned out?  In our SPECIAL, bonus holiday edition, we talk about how to navigate the expectations of the holidays.  Listen in and hear how we try to keep it real during this Covid Holiday Season!

Exhausted. Anxious. Shaming. Judgment. Fear. The 'Rona. Pandemic. Election. Quarantine. Face Mask. Maskhole. Toilet Paper. Hand Sanitizer. COVIDiot. Taboo Topics. Six Feet. Social Distancing. Doom Scrolling. Lockdown. Super Spreader. Mental Health. Dumpster Fire. Quarantini. Day Drinking. DIY Projects. Virtual Learning. Zoom. Pajamas. Flattening the Curve. Contactless Delivery. New Normal. WHO. Greater Good. Respect. Harmony. Gratitude. Family. Lifeboat. Podcast. Hope. Friendship. 2020: What. A. Year. Join Diana and Valerie as they discuss this unforgettable year.

This week is all about flexing that courage muscle! Fear can paralyze us into staying stuck but, as we push through, we get to experience the growth and the confidence of knowing that we felt the fear and did it anyway. It certainly helps to have your ride-or-die in the front seat next to you so grab a friend and jump on that roller coaster!

Everyone needs a mentor, a role model, a guardian angel. Diana and Valerie talk about the women in their lives, past and present, who have inspired and supported them over the years and discuss why they are so important to them.

Yup, you read that right! Diana and Valerie get REAL and have a very candid discussion about menopause, women's health, post-divorce dating and whole lot of other topics that are relevant to an active woman in her 50s. Great info for women (and men!) of any age.

Diana and Valerie spent time abroad during college in the London Internship Program through Boston University. They even managed to (mostly) make it to class and learn a few things! They spent a lot of time traveling together while they were there and have some pretty fun stories to tell. Find out more about these two wanderlusty women and the trip that bound their friendship together forever.

Maybe it's a garden. Maybe it's a tiny corner with a bookshelf and a view. Finding a sacred space to escape in your everyday life can be an essential way to rejuvenate yourself. Diana and Valerie discuss the spaces they've created in their own lives that soothe their souls.

What is YOUR THING? Maybe it's big, maybe it's small, but what is that thing that makes you really stand out? Something you feel passionate about and that you do effortlessly and with love? How are you incorporating this into your life? Join Diana and Valerie in a discussion about finding your niche, your calling, your special purpose.

Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! Make sure to visit girlattorney.com/shop and use code "LWLS20" at checkout for 20% off your RBG Fight Tote! On this week's episode, the ladies chat with the CEO and Founder of Girl Attorney, LLC, Susan Carns Curtiss. Susan shared her amazing path to law school which all started when she was chosen as a juror in a civil case. From there, she attended law school, worked at a few firms, and found herself being the owner of her own firm, Carns Curtiss Law, PLLC. All while being an amazing attorney, Susan also started Girl Attorney, LLC. Girl Attorney is a community of over 27k lady lawyers all over the United States, created to help answer questions, find business, and just be a support group. We had the best time recording wither her, and we know this won't be the last time you hear from her on our podcast! Talking to Susan was such a joy, and to say that we were fangirling after is an understatement. Her drive and vision for her life are so inspiring, and I'm sure so many of you future lawyers will look up to her too! Find her here:Girl Attorney InstagramSusan Carns Curtiss InstagramGirl Attorney WebsiteGirl Attorney Facebook PageAlso, check out our new desktop and iPhone wallpapers (free to download for personal use.) Make sure to DM us with all your law school questions and your question might be featured on an episode! FACEBOOK GROUP

It is SO HARD TO SAY NO. What are the areas in your life where you feel like you are always "taking one for the team" or pushing down your own feelings because you don't want to disappoint someone else? Diana and Valerie have worked hard over the years to establish and maintain boundaries in their lives. Listen in to hear how they've done it and what they're still working on.

Put it on the calendar and see what happens! Diana and Valerie talk about how they've learned to build fun and relaxation into their lives so that they're shinier, happier people. You can, too! Join us and find out how.

Have you ever felt the burn of shame? It's a huge barrier to self love and growth. Listen in and hear how Diana and Valerie have experienced and overcome shame in their own lives.

On todays episode I have on my sister Tay Carns and she shares her mamma heart with us-sharing the struggles, encouraging mammas, and sharing her message of grace to all. So if you are a mamma and need a little pep talk, you came to the right place. Connect with me @_wateryourthoughts and find Taylor at @Tay.Carns or @Totoily_tay_ for all your oily needs, and mom encouragment Book she referenced- How to talk so kids will listen, and how to listen so kids will talk

Who knew a lifelong friendship could begin over the shared reluctance to surrender a fake ID at college orientation? Meet Diana and Valerie, hear their stories and join them on their ongoing adventure of friendship, growth and self advocacy.

Heath and Shawn chat with Dr. Paula Carns about Christian art through the ages, ways to interpret and pray with it, and a brief explanation about the significance of the stained glass windows in St. John's Chapel.

Rachel Carns - musician, composer, artist and performer living in Olympia, Washington, U.S.. Raised in small-town Wisconsin, she went on to study painting and drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where she completed her B.F.A. in 1991. Carns is perhaps best known for her distinctive stand-up drumming style; she began as drummer for Kicking Giant, later collaborating with several influential bands, including The Need. She is a celebrated graphic designer, working under the name System Lux, and plays drums and percussion with experimental performance art group Cloud Eye Control.

Legendary Welsh Stones British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 4 Chapter 3 by Wirt Sikes Ancient Welsh stones that could move about by themselves and how the Saxon King Edgar the Peaceable passed a law forbidding Stone Worship. How stones could be linked to water, such as the healing powers of Canna's Chair which only worked after drinking from St. Canna's Well. Sikes also tells us about Talking Stones, Expanding Stones and the Stone of Invisibility which is one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain. Running Order: Personal Attributes of Legendary Welsh Stones 1:46 Stone Worship 2:43 Canna's Stone Chair 3:40 Miraculous Removals of Stones 4:45 The Walking Stone of Eitheinn 5:32 The Thigh Stone 6:26 The Talking Stone in Pembrokeshire 7:47 The Expanding Stone 9:12 Magic Stones in the 'Mabinogion' 10:07 The Stone of Invisibility 10:15 The Stone of Remembrance 11:29 Stone Thief-catchers 12:45 Stones of Healing 14:09 Stones at Cross-roads 15:40 Memorials of King Arthur 17:19 Round Tables, Carns, Pots, etc. 17:38 Arthur's Quoits 19:14 The Gigantic Ross-tossers of Old 19:49 Mol Walbec and the Pebble in her Show 20:25 The Giant of Trichrug 22:10 Giants and the Mythology of the Heavens 23:21 The Legend of Rhitta Gawr 24:00   Names Used in this Section All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronounciations right for you. Canna Eitheinn Mol Walbec Trichrug Rhitta Gawr Edgar the Peacable Canute Carmarthenshire Canna's Stone Saint Canna's Chair Llangan Ffynon Canna Parc y Fontwent      'Llangan, dyma'r fan'      (Llangan, here is the spot' Nennius Anglesea Cerevus Menai Builth King Arthur Cabal Troynt Carn Cabal Giraldus Maen Morddwyd Hugh, Earl of Chester King Henry I Llechlafar River Alyn St. David's Church, Pembrokeshire St. Gowan's Chapel Caerleon, Monmouthshire Ring of Luned Owen, son of Urien Ring of Gyges Rhonabwy Iddawc Peredur Etlym St. David's, Llanfaes Mowddwy St. Tydecho Maelgwyn Gwynedd Maenhir Dysgwylfa Crumlyn, Monmouthshire Llanberis Canrig Bwt Adrian Denbighshire Llanfihangel Dolwillim River Tawe Merlin River Sawdde Llangadock Mynydd Du Pen Arthur Cader Idris Dolgelly Machynlleth Castle of Hay Llowes Churchyard Hu Gadarn Cadwaladr Rhitta Gawr Brutus Idris Gawr Cymry Côr Gawr Killara Cardiganshire Gwydion Gwyn, son of Nudd   British Goblins can be found on Archive.org You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia. Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts. Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte.  You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Part 2 A  The Las Vegas shooting is a chilling reminder that big public concerts remain a soft target. And the industry is still scrambling with more information and grappling with what lessons it should draw from the massacre. What do we learn from another tragic horror attack ?  What are public safety measurements to consider ? Exclusive Guests: Patrick Garrity:   Former Scout Sniper at USMC, Military Technical Advisor to Sony Pictures, Mark Wahlberg in "Shooter" (2007), “Sniper: Legacy” (2014)  with Tom Berenger, "Mine" (2016), TRX Certified Trainer at Pismo Beach Athletic Club, RangeMaster of Defensive Firearms Training, DFTraining.net David Gray: US trained stunt man and a former US Marine, special weapons and tactics trainer, bodyguard, owner of Deimos Security in Bangkok www.Deimos-Security.com Bill Carns: Senior Range Master, a featured contestant of the inaugural season of History Channel's Top Shot,  host of Second Amendment Radio on Liberty News Radio Network.   Podcast series brought by iDARE, home for safety and survival, and disaster preparedness.  Our goal is to promote disaster risk reduction, and sustainability

Top Five Tracks 1. Tommy Lee Sparta - Mek Yuh Say 2. Scribz - Wicked & Bad (prod by Carns hill) 3.Tekno - Pana 4.Chris Brown - Poppin 5.Yxng Bane ft Kojo Funds - Fine Wine Twitter: @DJJTK_1 & @Mobousuf Snapchat : DJ_JTK

The fourth instalment of the #TBCPodcast sees hosts Mikill Pane and Vidal go back and forth about some of the major events in the past week. From 67 receiving label interest and the Police's false allegations of a shooting outside their headline show to Justin Bieber and his controversial dreadlocks. #TBCPodcast was joined by guest Mercston, as he talks about the latest single 'Trendin', plans for his solo album and more information on The Movement's long awaited album. The team also had Carns Hill shed his perspective on pioneering the UK's drill sound, the rap scenes relationship with the police and finally Post Diddy breaks down everything Top Boy 3. Hosts: Mikill Pane & Vidal Produced By: Ren Guests: Post, Mercston & Carns Hill Brought to you by: GRM Daily & Bernie Mac See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Samtal om Cornelia i Barnaministeriet vars föräldrar är hörselskadade. Pappa Niklas orolig för 6-årige sonens start i första klass. Pojken är stressad och lärarna säger att han är utagerande. Barnen slåss på skolgården. Föräldratips från hårdrockaren Joacim Carns. Reaktioner efter förra veckans prat om fotbollsvåldet på stora arenor. Frågor om amning och tänder. Farmor Lisa är orolig över att hennes barnbarn Nils på 2 ½ år inte vill gå till frisören. Mikael med 5 ½ årig son, som får utbrott framförallt på Förskolan. Mamma Linda, ensamstående med 31/2-årig son som vill ha något varje gång de ska handla. Freja med 5 månaders baby som bara vill sova 2 timmar åt gången och sedan ligga vid bröstet. Maila dina frågor till nästa Knattetimme: knattetimmenip4@sverigesradio.se

A look back at the summer of 1985, when Ireland was in the grip of the phenomenon of 'moving statues'. Eyewitnesses give there accounts of what they saw in Ballinspittle, Co,Cork and Carns, Co. Sligo.